The famous British female novelist Jane Austen, in her short life, created 6 works, these 6 novels reflect Jane Austen's own views and values of marriage and love, most of the endings in the novel are satisfactory, perhaps the unsatisfactory in real life, it will have a happy ending in another place.
Jane Austen met tom Leroy, a young lawyer who thought he was Irish, when he was 20 years old, although the two fell in love, but in the end they did not come together, for many reasons, forced by social, family, money and material pressure, in the movie "Become Jane Austen", a line of the heroine impressed me deeply: "Our love will destroy your family, but also destroy yourself", perhaps letting go is also their own achievements.
Jane Austen never married, although there were also excellent young people to propose to her, but she did not love him, directly refused, in her short life of 42 years, she poured all her emotions into the creation, during which she created 6 famous works; And Tom Leroy's career as a lawyer was also smooth, and finally became the chief justice of Ireland, he named his eldest daughter Jane.
People may feel sorry for this ending, but it is undeniable that such an experience also created Jane Austen on the other hand. Jane Austen lived in Europe in the 18th century, when the end of the Renaissance had brought about a revival of human nature, and at that time the European Intellectual Enlightenment was at its peak, people gradually moved from religious imprisonment to self-liberation, and rational objectivity became the mainstream of people's thought.
Reading Jane Austen's works, it is not difficult to find that most of his works are generally the stories of the marriage and love of the daughters of ordinary squires, which is related to the environment in which she lived at that time, and lived in a village with strong feudal forces all her life, and her life circle was also very small.
Like many people are familiar with "pride and prejudice" is a typical squire love story, but it is not just a love story, the heroine of the novel Elizabeth is smart, knowledgeable, far-sighted, but also has a strong sense of self-esteem, but also good at thinking about problems, which was very rare and valuable among girls born in the middle class of British townships at that time, her concept of marriage is also in line with the concept of marriage and love of women in modern society, just because of money and wealth and marriage is wrong, But it would be foolish to get married without taking these factors into account, mainly to emphasize the importance of rational marriage.
The American writer Mark Twain and the British writer Charlotte Lang once said of Jane Austen's work, the former saying that "a library is a good library without Austen's books", while the latter said that "Austen's perspective is too narrow".
But combined with the social background at that time, the End of the 18th Century to the beginning of the 19th Century in the British townships, people are in a conservative and closed living environment, Jane Austen's works, undoubtedly reflect the awakening of women's consciousness, in the 18th century, the social status of Women in Britain is still very low, in the political, economic and ideological fields are restricted, there is no right to speak, is a vassal of the patriarchal society, the most ironic thing is that at that time marriage seems to have become their only way out, if they choose carelessly, Then you will live a life of poverty and destitution.
In the eyes of Jane Austen, women have the right to pursue equal rights between men and women, and in her works, the heroine abandons the secular concept of marriage and love and creates an independent and brave female image, which is precisely the embodiment of the values of her works, which is undoubtedly the awakening of women's self-awareness.